[XeTeX] "Minimalist" TeX?

[William Adams]

On May 16, 2012, at 12:38 AM, C Y wrote:

> My interest is in building a "Minimalist" subset of TeX in situations where a system installation isn't present, but I've not had much luck locating documentation describing what constitutes a minimal-yet-functional subset of the TeX Live distribution.  Has anybody documented such a subset?

You would need an example document or set of such to work from.

W32TeX is quite compartmentalized though:

http://w32tex.org/

and does a good job of describing various components of TeX.

William

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